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Carter Ford led the Crimson sailing team to its second consecutive triumph the New England Sloop Championships at New London last weekend, becoming the first skipper ever to the tournament's Lawrence A. White Trophy twice...
M.I.T. will host the Freshman Individual Crew Championship this weekend, with Desmond Fitzgerald skippering the Crimson entry against 16 other colleges. Another competition, the Brown Fall Regatta, takes place Sunday, and, with Ford occupied, Mike Lehmann and either Pete Farrow or Dave Stookey will skipper the two boats from the Charles...
Ford, with three first places and three seconds, was high-point skipper of the regatta. Both Lehmann and Horn, skippering for the first time in intercollegiate competition, provided needed depth and were largely responsible for the Crimson upset...
...Crimson's success on Sunday will depend to a large extent on how the team fares the day before, when they return to New London for the New England Sloop Championships. Ford will skipper a Raven crew which includes Peter Drake, Mike Horn, and Rock Pring. Ford skippered the crew which won last year's championship, and the pressure is on for the Crimson crew this year. Ford hopes skillful spinnaker work will make the difference in this year's competition. Also racing in this first heat will be boats from Babson, B.U., the Coast Guard Academy, Middlebury, Northeastern...
...weeks after his death, she impulsively married Captain Horace G. Brown, sometime skipper of an oceangoing tanker and former cop, who looked very much like William Randolph Hearst. The marriage almost ended within a year as Brown began making a nuisance of himself: he pushed her into the pool, his monkey bit her, and he let the air out of the tires of visitors' automobiles. She decided to ignore him and became absorbed with real estate interests, acquiring office buildings in Manhattan, Palm Springs' Desert Inn, and 360,000 acres in Mexico...